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Professionals such as Enrolled Agents are required to make ethical decisions daily when performing the duties of their practice. Ethical decisions are influenced by many different factors, such as culture, motivation, power, and others. This training course will describe some of the ethical considerations that influence the decision making process through the lens of Circular 230.

The Internal Revenue Code (IRC) is a continually changing tax code that is always being updated and enhanced with new legislature. With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the tax code underwent serious changes to ensure that Americans received help and support during a truly unprecedented time in U.S. history. This course will cover all of the “must-know provisions” enacted into the tax code within the 2020-2021 tax year. It will discuss all updates pertaining to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the legislation that the tax code is currently built upon. This course will also discuss the three major pieces of COVID legislation passed in 2020: the CARES Act, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, and the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. Finally, this course will discuss how the 2020 COVID legislation has had an impact on our current understanding of the tax code.

Estate taxes are one of the taxes covered by the IRS’s unified transfer tax system. Estate taxes are designed to collect taxes from transferring property at death. Proper planning can save a substantial amount of money in taxes. This course will discuss estate planning and estate taxes. This course will describe the tools that are available for estate planning and will define the benefits of using each tool. This course will describe how to identify what is included in the gross estate and demonstrate how to calculate the gross estate amounts. This course has been updated to reflect all current changes to tax law and amounts for2022.

The IRS has a unified wealth transfer taxation system to ensure that any assets transferred my means of gifts, deaths, and gifts that skip a generation are taxed accordingly. This course will discuss estate planning and estate taxes, gift taxes, and generation-skipping transfer taxes in detail. This course will describe the tools that are available for estate planning and will define the benefits of using each tool. This course will describe how to identify what is included in the gross estate and demonstrate how to calculate the gross estate amounts. This course will also identify the conditions under which filing a gift tax return is required. Finally, this course will identify and discuss the different types of generation-skipping transfers and how each are taxed by the IRS. This course has been updated to reflect all current changes to tax law and amounts for 2022.

When filing a federal income tax return, it is very important to know who is actually required to file a return and the criteria surrounding the filing of a federal income tax return. Due to numerous updates to the IRC and the inclusion of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act into law, filing requirements for individual taxpayers have been drastically altered.  This course will focus on the updated filing requirements surrounding individual taxpayers across all filing types. Additionally, this course will go into detail regarding the updated basic standard deduction, additional standard deduction, personal deduction, and penalty amounts. Finally, this course will go over the filing of a deceased taxpayer’s federal income tax return and the treatment of decedent income.

Gifts are a commonly used method to reduce the amount of estate taxes owed. This course has been updated to reflect all current changes to tax law as practitioners prepare returns in 2022. This course will explore the topic of gift taxes. It will explain when gifts are free of tax liability and identify various scenarios when filing a gift tax return is required.

Individual retirement accounts are investing tools that permit individuals to set aside money for retirement in a way that is preferential from a tax standpoint. This course will review the following types of IRA accounts: Traditional IRAs, Roth IRAs, SIMPLE IRAs and SEP IRAs. This course will describe who is allowed to open and contribute to an IRA account during the taxable year. This course will identify when contributions are deductible and when they are not deductible. This course will describe the time allowed to rollover distributions and the ramifications of not completing rollovers within the allotted time. Finally, this course will describe when taxpayers are permitted to take distributions from an IRA account.

The American Rescue Plan of 2021 is the latest COVID-19 relief package that provides $1.9 trillion in mandatory funding, program changes and tax policies aimed at mitigating the continuing effects of the pandemic. The bill was crafted to provide urgent and targeted funding to defeat the virus and provide workers and families the resources they need to survive the pandemic while the vaccine is distributed to every American.

The American Rescue Plan of 2021 was passed by the House Feb. 27, 2021, and the Senate March 6, 2021. It was signed into law by President Biden on March 11, 2021. The American Rescue Plan of 2021 will cost of $1.9 trillion making it one of the largest economic rescue plans in U.S. history.

The American Rescue Plan of 2021 is the latest legislation to facilitate recovering from the economic and health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. This legislation following the CARES Act of 2020 and the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021. This Act extends some aspects of those bills while also creating new recovery provisions. It mixes efforts to mitigate the economic effects of the pandemic with strategies to fight the virus itself.

The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, also called the COVID-19 Stimulus Package, is a $1.9 trillion economic stimulus bill passed by the 117th United States Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden on March 11, 2021. This act was passed to speed up the United States' recovery from the economic and health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing recession. This legislation was first proposed on January 14, 2021, the package builds upon many of the measures in the CARES Act from March and in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, from December.

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of forms the current foundation of the US tax code. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is organized into four primary sections of: Individual Tax Reform, Business Tax Reform, Exempt Organizations and International provisions. This is an updated course for 2022 that will provide a thorough review of all four portions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Bill (H.R.1.) as well as any changes for the 2022 tax yar. Part 1 of this course will provide a summary description of all provisions referenced in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act for each of the primary sections. It will identify which sections changed for 2018 and which were updated for 2022. Each provision will reference a more detailed description of the provision in Part 2 of this course.  The detailed description will review the pre-2018 law, provide a detailed description of the changes for 2018 and identify the effective date that the provision became effective.

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of forms the current foundation of the US tax code. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is organized into four primary sections of: Individual Tax Reform, Business Tax Reform, Exempt Organizations and International provisions. This is an updated course for 2022 that will provide a quick review of all four portions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Bill (H.R.1.) and it also includes the provisions that have changed for 2022. This course will provide a summary description of all provisions referenced in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act for each of the primary sections. It will identify which sections changed for 2018 and which were updated for 2022.

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of forms the current foundation of the US tax code. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is organized into four primary sections of: Individual Tax Reform, Business Tax Reform, Exempt Organizations and International provisions. This is an updated course for 2022 that will provide a thorough review of the Business Tax Reform portion of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Bill (H.R.1.) as well as any changes for the 2022 tax year. Part 1 of this course will provide a summary description of all provisions referenced in the Business Tax Reform section of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. It will identify which sections changed when the tax law was enacted in 2018 and which were updated for 2022. Each provision will reference a more detailed description of the provision in Part 2 of this course.  The detailed description will review the pre-2018 law, provide a detailed description of the changes for 2018 and identify the effective date that the provision became effective.

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of forms the current foundation of the US tax code. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is organized into four primary sections of: Individual Tax Reform, Business Tax Reform, Exempt Organizations and International provisions. This is an updated course for 2022 that will provide a thorough review of the Individual Tax Reform section of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Bill (H.R.1.) as well as any changes for the 2022 tax yar. Part 1 of this course will provide a summary description of all provisions referenced in Individual Tax Reform section of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. It will identify which sections changed for 2018 and which were updated for 2022. Each provision will reference a more detailed description of the provision in Part 2 of this course.  The detailed description will review the pre-2018 law, provide a detailed description of the changes for 2018 and identify the effective date that the provision became effective.